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Gallery Notes Volume 27 Number 3

Gallery Notes Volume 27 Number 3 Page 1

The Memorial Art Gallery
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
GALLERY NOTES
ROCHESTER 7,
NEW YORK
Ink Drawing by Jackson Pollock
Vol 27, No. 3 - January-February, 1962
THE JANUARY EXHIBITIONS
THE MARSHALL M. REISMAN COLLECTION
Three special exhibition events start off
the Gallery's New Year this month in colorful and dynamic fashion. Featured in this
trio of varied offerings is the first public
exhibition of an excellent collection of
American and European paintings, drawings and
sculpture—mainly contemporary—assembled by
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Reisman of Syracuse.
That a group of such uniformly high quality
could be acquired in these days of astronomical prices and in what has been a comparatively short time, too, is a marked tribute to the knowledgable and appreciative
eyes of the Reismans. The Gallery is particularly happy to be able to present their
collection to Rochester, and is deeply grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Reisman for making
it possible. With Buffalo boasting its Seymour Knox and Syracuse its Marshall
Reisman, the Gallery—fast developing a local pride more common to chambers of
commerce than to art museums—records here a pious New Year's wish that Rochester
will increase its own quota of patron-collectors in 1962!
The Reisman collection is not an extensive one—only some thirty-six items have been
selected to come to Rochester—but it has been assembled with particular sensitivity and discrimination, fitting into its modern home and office settings with
unusual distinction and appropriateness. The majority of objects are contemporary, but a vivid wash drawing by Goya, the small
bronze "Secrets" by Rodin, and a rare Persian clay
figure of an ox, dated some 1000 years before Christ,
fit perfectly into the collection along with their
20th Century colleagues.
Among the group of Americans to be represented are
Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollock, Ben Shahn, Loren Maclver,
Millard Sheets, Paul Reps and Robert Eschoo. Three
excellent abstract sculptures by Harry Bertoia and a
large dramatic mobile by Alexander Calder are also
included, George Vander Sluis' vigorously painted
gouache and work by Prudence Burg, Warren E, Russell,
John Prip and Ronnie Pearson prove that the Reismans
have not overlooked the artists and craftsmen of
their own western New York area. Most of the latter
are well-known to Rochester through Gallery exhibits-
Warren Russell, however, is a most talented newcomer.
The group of European contemporary art is highlighted
by two unusually fine paintings by Marc Chagall and
"La Nuit" by Marc Chagall

The Memorial Art Gallery
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
GALLERY NOTES
ROCHESTER 7,
NEW YORK
Ink Drawing by Jackson Pollock
Vol 27, No. 3 - January-February, 1962
THE JANUARY EXHIBITIONS
THE MARSHALL M. REISMAN COLLECTION
Three special exhibition events start off
the Gallery's New Year this month in colorful and dynamic fashion. Featured in this
trio of varied offerings is the first public
exhibition of an excellent collection of
American and European paintings, drawings and
sculpture—mainly contemporary—assembled by
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Reisman of Syracuse.
That a group of such uniformly high quality
could be acquired in these days of astronomical prices and in what has been a comparatively short time, too, is a marked tribute to the knowledgable and appreciative
eyes of the Reismans. The Gallery is particularly happy to be able to present their
collection to Rochester, and is deeply grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Reisman for making
it possible. With Buffalo boasting its Seymour Knox and Syracuse its Marshall
Reisman, the Gallery—fast developing a local pride more common to chambers of
commerce than to art museums—records here a pious New Year's wish that Rochester
will increase its own quota of patron-collectors in 1962!
The Reisman collection is not an extensive one—only some thirty-six items have been
selected to come to Rochester—but it has been assembled with particular sensitivity and discrimination, fitting into its modern home and office settings with
unusual distinction and appropriateness. The majority of objects are contemporary, but a vivid wash drawing by Goya, the small
bronze "Secrets" by Rodin, and a rare Persian clay
figure of an ox, dated some 1000 years before Christ,
fit perfectly into the collection along with their
20th Century colleagues.
Among the group of Americans to be represented are
Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollock, Ben Shahn, Loren Maclver,
Millard Sheets, Paul Reps and Robert Eschoo. Three
excellent abstract sculptures by Harry Bertoia and a
large dramatic mobile by Alexander Calder are also
included, George Vander Sluis' vigorously painted
gouache and work by Prudence Burg, Warren E, Russell,
John Prip and Ronnie Pearson prove that the Reismans
have not overlooked the artists and craftsmen of
their own western New York area. Most of the latter
are well-known to Rochester through Gallery exhibits-
Warren Russell, however, is a most talented newcomer.
The group of European contemporary art is highlighted
by two unusually fine paintings by Marc Chagall and
"La Nuit" by Marc Chagall